On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 9/10/2010 00:32, Nick Edwards wrote: > > Good day all, > > I apologize in advance if the moderators consider this slightly OT. > > > > We have many users moved to a MySQL database, planned for moving away > > from Cyrus on Sunday Oct 3, we are almost ready to go but found a > > problem with pop3 software we were going to use. > > > > So basically, using postifx's virtual, excluding Dovecot, what POP3 > > servers are people using? This will be NFS so we are going to use > Maildir. > > We know Courier, but Googling shows a /lot/ of people say it's slow > > compared to other daemons, but there does not seem to be much else of a > > real choice? > > > > We have approximately 90 thousands DSL and 3G users, not a big company, > > but hardly too small either. > > > > I used to use Courier, but ended up replacing it with Dovecot. > > ~Seth > Thanks, we have over the weekend ran two testbeds at full thrashing with in house written scripts, the timings show after 57 hours of constant stress tests with identical copies of various messages pop'd by both using 1000 parallel accesses, for pop3 courier is no faster than dovecot, we are sure if it was imap it would be a different story, but we have no use, since sqwebmail uses pop3, we can eliminate imap completely, the decision to our problem is simple now, after this test, we see no reason to continue to use dovecot in its current state with its inherit risks when courier has none of them, the move to courier is now justified. Thanks to all who offered alternative suggestions. Nick
